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Higher Ed Institutions Wrestle With Reparations and Repentance

In a growing reparations movement, universities like Georgetown are looking for ways to financially give back after discovering historic ties with slavery, provoking difficult conversations on campus about what restitution means and how much, if anything, is enough.But for religious higher education institutions, reparations involve another layer of dialogue – struggling with not only their tangled financial pasts but their theological contributions to slavery.

November 7, 2019